HMK2
3mo ago
There were a couple of decades where all the books on immigration in the public library's catalog were from 1992-97.
HMK2
3mo ago
In my opinion, the 1924 immigration restriction act should have been the beginning of that sort of thing for the US: the gradual melding of the European ethnic groups into a single White American entity. (Scottish, as perceived as a separate ethnicity in the US, actually did vanish sometime in the early postwar era).
But the Hart-Cellar act, by neglecting to set hard, very low annual caps on non-European immigration, blew up the chance to have a single ethnic group composing 90% of the population.
HMK2
4mo ago
Hasn't top-level soccer been doing that for decades? Tons of players who have no connection with the country of the team for which they play.
HMK2
4mo ago
Sounds a bit like a caricature British name such as "General Sir Humphrey George Smith-Smythe-Smith, OBE, VC"
HMK2
4mo ago
The pre-war stuff was a lot more interesting. Jimmie Davis, all those yodeling cowboys. (The W part of CW pretty much completely died circa 1960.)
HMK2
5mo ago
He's Romanian, but not white? Is he a Gypsy? I've never heard of a Gypsy with an M.D.
HMK2
7mo ago
... but how do you know the video is real and not an AI deepfake? Isn't it possible now, for instance, to gin up a video of Charlie Kirk robbing a liquor store?
HMK2
8mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8s58fo0kjrtf1.jpeg
The manager/franchisee of a Lush store in Chicago put this sign up. AFAIK the entire Chicago subreddit agrees with this sentiment.
HMK2
8mo ago
In Northern VA, most of the masked people I see are Asian. I understand that going out in public masked has been very common in East Asia since the SARS epidemic more than twenty years ago.
HMK2
10mo ago
The UK's infrastructure seems to be extraordinarily brittle. Three days without rain and they institute a "hosepipe ban."
HMK2
10mo ago
When I visited Boston in the summer of 2016, i was looking forward to doing some girl-watching at Revere Beach, accessible by the T.
Almost everyone there was Latino, though, and it looked like a rough neighborhood. I guess the area's white residents had long since abandoned the place for some beach you could only access by car.
HMK2
11mo ago
Re-watched Robocop (1987) recently. I hadn't remembered that, though it's set in Detroit "twenty minutes into the future", pretty much all the criminals are white.
HMK2
11mo ago
They didn't even need to do that!! The Sea People are canonically black, and so is the Seanchan princess!
HMK2
11mo ago
In my home area, Northern Virginia, all the jobs that teens used to do - fast food, lawnmowing, child care - are now done by adult Central American immigrants. It's been that way for thirty years or so!
I have no idea how (other than lifeguarding at pools) kids are supposed to earn money nowadays.
HMK2
11mo ago
Some species has to be the very first sapient life in the galaxy. Maybe we're just the Progenitors.
HMK2
11mo ago
I'm reminded of Day of the Jackal; the OAS fanatics thoroughly convinced that once DeGaulle was assassinated, the populace would "rise up and sweep away the treasonous rabble" and allow the OAS to take over France.
HMK2
2yr ago
Flashback to Follett's Pillars of the Earth in which the IQ 150 builder gets bullied by the IQ 90 teenage son of the local noble.
By that rule, we already had a black President: Warren Harding.
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